On 03/06/2011 05:02 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
I propose that only {- -} is comment; that is, -- is an operator token
and not a marker of comments.
I'm curious to know why anybody thought that "--" was a good comment
marker in the first place. (I'm curious because Haskell isn't the only
language to have made this strange choice.)
I once tried defining a "++" operator and then when I went to define a
matching "--" operator...
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